Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk(pluralistic.net)

204 points by headalgorithm 3 years ago | 124 comments

Solar is a market for (financial) lemons(pluralistic.net)

79 points by Timothee 2 years ago | 49 comments

Apple fucked us on right to repair (again)(pluralistic.net)

80 points by jrepinc 3 years ago | 17 comments

‘We buy ugly houses’ is code for ‘we steal vulnerable peoples’ homes’(pluralistic.net)

59 points by deegles 3 years ago | 42 comments

Open Circuits: The Inner Beauty of Electronic Components(pluralistic.net)

120 points by samizdis 3 years ago | 27 comments

I Got Scammed(pluralistic.net)

25 points by ColinWright 2 years ago | 3 comments

It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership(popcar.bearblog.dev)

594 points by popcar2 3 months ago | 452 comments

A blog post arguing that the debate over physical versus digital games is really about ownership, prompted by PlayStation ending disc production for new games.

I don't like passkeys(hawksley.dev)

676 points by ethanhawksley 1 month ago | 665 comments

A personal blog post by Ethan Hawksley explaining why he dislikes passkeys and the tech industry's push to make users adopt them.

It's not a crime if we do it with an app(pluralistic.net)

745 points by keepit 1 year ago | 448 comments

A Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow arguing that companies use apps to do things that would be illegal if done directly; the page rendered blank.

How we lost communication to entertainment(ploum.net)

651 points by 8organicbits 10 months ago | 365 comments

Blog post by Ploum arguing that online communication tools have been turned into entertainment platforms, eroding genuine communication.

Doomscrolling ourselves to death(edwest.co.uk)

377 points by shubhamjain 1 month ago | 281 comments

Ed West's Substack essay on children's media diets and doomscrolling, discussing James Marriott's 'The New Dark Ages'.

Killing Community(marginalia.nu)

495 points by dasil003 3 years ago | 350 comments

A Marginalia weblog post arguing that venture-capital-funded social media inevitably degrades online communities, citing the 2023 Reddit controversy.